Except dude is talking out of his ass completely, as it takes multiple DECADES for changes in emissions levels to be reflected in atmospheric concentrations… But, ya know, reality is just like a matter of opinion now, apparently, so… It’s fun to pretend tho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Boy, got awful quiet all of a sudden, huh? 🤣😂 Bro is over there desperately trying to convince himself that nah, he could totally live on Venus as long as he only measures the surface temperature as an average over 40 billion years, give or take
If only you would’ve been here 10 - 20 years ago to impart upon us savages this great wisdom, oh master… We were but too simple then to think such BOLD, OBVIOUSLY COMPLETELY NOVEL thoughts on our own! Alack, what woe! 🙄
Not to burst your bubble there, junior, but class (read: socioeconomic) warfare didn’t just magically appear within the past couple of decades… Or centuries…
Do me a favor: Google the phrase “let them eat cake” or “proletariat” or “bourgeoisie” or… actually it might just be quicker for you to look up “world history prior to 2000” and at least skim a bit or something
No shit, right? Cuz, I mean, it’s clearly making a difference and all, just look at the graph! 🙃
I feel like I’m taking fucking crazy pills anymore, i swear
The real tragedy of 2024 is that Matthew Perry and Elon Musk’s fates were clearly switched somehow.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I am soooo fucking sick to death of everything needing to be ‘open world’ (for some reason) that I could puke. Sure, some games may benefit from - or hell, even be downright enriched in some manner by - their use, but outside of a few, notable exceptions (Elden Ring and RDR1/2, in particular, spring to mind, for example) when I see a studio touting their “new and improved, expansive, X times bigger, blahblahblah” open world, all I can think is two things:
There will almost certainly be no more than five types (and likely significantly less, tbh) of copy/paste activity I’ll be expected to engage in shotgunned haphazardly across the map. The studios that go ‘above and beyond’ MIGHT attempt to switch things up a bit by slightly altering building or adversary layouts in places, but that’s usually a ‘best case scenario’ kinda thing, and you’ll probably be fortunate to end up with some sort of palette swap. How compelling, eh?
I’m going to be subjected to either a veritable fuckton of bland, faceless NPC’s with an equally bland line or two of ‘dialogue’ that is ultimately meaningless or a flimsy pretext to go over there somewhere for… reasons… or a handful or so of them that are inexplicably absolutely VITAL to (or otherwise the impetus behind) everything that is plot - which they have a flimsy pretext for, natch.
Look, I played WoW back in the day already. If I really desperately wanted to waste dozens of hours of my time delivering imaginary packages to forgettable people, or being sent in search of someone who is the only one who can help stop BBEG/the apocalypse/whatever - and will totally help, but need a favor first… Ugh - then I’d go back to the good ol’ WoW treadmill. I left that shit behind because I was sick of it all just feeling like checkmarks someone had to tick off somewhere to appease the C-Suite douchenozzles that don’t understand why we can’t add in a battlepass. (Those are SOOO hot right now!)
Which then proceeds to self-drive itself directly into the surface of the sun - inexplicably, but to the approval of all.
I once saw a comment from a self-labeled ‘Christian conservative’ that was something to the tune of: “We need to stop taking the religion out of everything, because otherwise what’s to stop people from raping and stealing and killing and blah blah.”
It was then that I first had the horrifying revelation that this person (and many others, I’m sure) is at least quite strongly implying that without the threat of hell they wouldn’t have any reason to NOT do any of those things.
‘Great Replacement Theory’, huh?
Business men doing… Business?
That would imply some form of justice being done, so…
I agree with most of this, but how have you never come across Munch’s “The Scream” before? (Have to admit, I lol’d at your description of it tho)
I mean, he does kinda gives me some ‘Cybertruck if it were a human’ vibes now that you mention it…